Changes to size, teeth and ears in various rodents in Chicago found to be part of their adaptation to human development.

Researchers studied specimens of small mammals in the Field Museum’s collection to explore the ways animals are adapting to ...

Researchers at the Field Museum studied chipmunk and vole specimens from a century ago till now to examine the influence of people on rodents over time.

Dragging the weighted black bait box out from the brush with his boots, Ryan Campbell wiped a few beads of sweat from his ...

Meadowlarks, robins and vesper sparrows greeted the dawn, each exhalation of their voices adding a quantum of mist to that in ...

Good morning, Chicago. The father of the Chicago drill rapper whose album release party was targeted in a mass shooting in River North over the Fourth of July has been hit with federal weapons charges ...

Normally when I go out to capture an animal in distress, I must rely on myself. Calls rarely come in when several people are ...

Scientists found new and missing species on Charity Island, showing how wildlife changes over a century on this remote Lake ...